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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Could someone please explain to me why it matters how or why or who Peters used the n word? it's all repugnant and racist and should result in your instant termination, walking into a room with or without a black team member and saying 'turn that 'n' music off' should get you fired, it makes no difference who put the music on or whether the word was specifically directed at anyone.
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I think it's incredibly important to separate racism and hatred from a moronic use of a terrible word. They're both deplorable, but I wouldn't paint them both with the same brush myself.
It's definitely all repugnant, but I think understanding what happened in 2008 impacts a lot. The allegation and the subsequent pile-on characterized Peters as a racist and abusive coach throughout his entire tenure. However, this could have also been a one-off incident that was learned from apologized for and influenced a lot of growth and in Peters' life. Up to this point, we have no clue.
But Akim's earlier characterization was flippant and repeated use and to some this suggested repeated use. It suggested that the word was used directly at him, and instead of apologizing he set out to ruin Akim's career.
By Bill's characterization, he said something he absolutely shouldn't have - and immediately apologized to the team. It suggested that he was ignorant of his terrible error, and sought to rectify and apologize for it immediately.
Those are their characterizations, and anyone is welcome to politely and constructively educate me if I've misunderstood their characterizations. Personally though, one is someone I want nowhere near my team. The other is more of a debate on "who gets a second chance" to be TBH. Without knowing much yet on how this was handled in 2008, I'm surprised he kept his job at the time. But what he did to rectify his horrible actions, and the 11 years since are important to me in forgiving someone. By all accounts, outside of the few that piled on, we've heard a lot of "I never heard or saw anything similar from Bill"
I've known many good people to have a terrible grasp of offensive things - but they're great people. Not one of them has ever held their stance when challenged on their offensive